they'll be together next week with harry reid out in nevada. so, i think that the bond that the two of them had is much stronger than people even understand. >> because there's still some lingering -- apparently some gore supporters lingering bitterness at the former president, some clinton supporter, lingering bitterness at al gore for supposedly not using him enough during the 2000 campaign. >> i was involved in many of those discussions and we used bill clinton as often as we possibly could to not only help us raise money to motivate our base. that's one of the reasons why al gore won the popular vote. >> here's what our friend writes in "the new york times" today, leslie. "they have had relatively little contact after their unhappy parting nearly nine years ago. still, over eight years they have both built post-white house identities that seem to have left them with peace with their shared past and together." >> exactly. outside looking in. if anything, you could argue that al gore did a lot more to help bill clinton in '92 and '96. and, yo